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Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I recall people in the past spending their day reading random Wikipedia trivia. Overal the knowledge is rather useless.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Useless? Knowledge for its own sake is worth pursuing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is it though?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Depends on what you're into, what you do, etc... Could be the difference between winning Final Jeopardy and not. Or being able to identify Alessandro Gazzi by name in a police lineup, for example.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean you can just swipe if it’s not your jam. I think this is a great idea.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

There is no knowledge that is not power.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Still better than endless tiktiok scroll, me thinks

Due to shitty company pokicies where I worked, I once had a 6 month stint of reading Wikipedia 4-6 hours a day out of boredom and fuck yeah did I learn a lot of bew things. Sure, not everything sticks, but it's enough

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Useless knowledge is still better than tiktok https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/07067437221082854

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Information > misinformation

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Maybe, but you will win more pub quizzes and it's better than brainrot content

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

As opposed to spending the day reading social media where the knowledge is useful?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Knowledge is a good in and of itself

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Because Tiktok is so much better.